TVB's version of "The Empress of China" will not be "big-headed dolls"; Hides cleavage by adding fabric to costumes

Earlier, when "The Empress of China" was broadcasted in Mainland China, because the cleavage of the actresses were seen as too sexy, they were forced to edit the scenes so that cleavage wouldn't be shown. As a result, many scenes were zoomed in to show only their heads and a lot of the background and costumes could not be seen. As TVB will be broadcasting the drama this week, in order to keep the quality of the production, they spent extra money to hire a professional team to add fabric in front of the actresses' chests, instead of cutting the scenes. The colour and pattern of the clothes are carefully managed, so that the audience cannot tell it is done by the computer. This way, the audience can still see the beautiful scenery and costumes that the audience longed to see in the drama. TVB has also re-edited the drama as a 70 episode production (compared to the 96 episodes in China).

Regarding this "added fabric" version, Kathy Chow, who plays Consort Yang in the drama, commented saying she does not think it's unfortunate that the actresses' "good bodies" are being censored. She laughed: "The most important is that the story can be displayed as it was made. I felt that the "big-headed dolls" version was more unfortunate. Everything was zoomed in, so no one could see the surroundings and environment. " Therefore, she feels this method is just like pulling up the clothes, much better than "big heads".

"The Empress of China" will be airing on Sunday April 26th at 9:30pm. The drama will air everyday.

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Chloe.C 24

Although I'm sure some people won't be happy not being able to see the cleavage, but this is definitely a much better method to solve the cleavage "problem" than zooming in and making everything look ugly. -__- Cutting the scenes to big-headed dolls was simply the lazy way. At least TVB wasn't lazy and didn't ruin the artistic side of it. And I have to say, at least it looks pretty natural!

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macrox 1

ahhaahahh thats hilarious. very strange that its a mainland production that would have so much cleavage though. you would think that they would take care to hide it because mainland is usually so conservative